Little things can make such a big difference during recording.
I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, and how you live while you're there is what appeals to me.
I have my own studio that I sing in.
It doesn't matter if you record with a microphone on a laptop or at a friend's house. Now it's more of a danger of things sounding too high-fi than sounding too low-fi.
I bought an audio technician mic and Pro Tools SE, the demo version and was recording in the basement.
I lived in a pretty big house, and we had a guesthouse, so when I was 14, I built a studio in my bedroom, which was pretty big. It was two rooms connected, so I turned the second into a studio and ran the mic in my closet.
I'm still amazed by the process of recording.
When we were first recording, I was wearing a bag on my head.
Don't play too loud! Bleed-through on stage can be brutal to front-of-house sound.
I've got a studio at home, and I'm always recording.
I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.
I record all the time.
Well, they put me in a booth and then did some nice things to the speaker to make it come out sounding ok.
I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.
I recorded 'Play God' in a shed. I don't know how we got it to sound as good as it did.
Recording studios are interesting; a lot of people say - and I agree - that you should have a lot of wood in a recording studio. It gets a kind of a sweeter sound.
I do have a little setup at home. I use Pro Tools and a Neumann mic. Neumann's are my favorite.
Studios always seem to be in basements without natural light and with black everything.
If you ever want to play bigger places, you need to have records that sound like you're playing in big places.
You go into any recording studio in the world, and you see candles, lights, and that Apple light from a Mac.
The way they had the room that I was in set up, there was some sort of sound deadening platform that I had to stand on in order to get close enough to the microphone.
I now have a home recording studio, which I can operate entirely on my own, as well as a portable version of the same which allows me to record anywhere I like and simply swap out the hard drives for use in the home studio.
If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.
Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes!
I'm from the pre-Pro Tools era where you had to meet up with the artist and go over things if you wanted to record a track.
